Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
(Abraham Lincoln)

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.
(Rabbi Nachman)

When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
(Joseph Campbell)

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
(Norman Vincent Peale)

You can tell that you're doing the right thing if it feels effortless.
(Unknown)

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway, we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
(Earl Nightingale)

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
(David Starr Jordan)

Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.
(Yiddish Proverb)

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
(Maureen Dowd)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
(Sidney Greenberg)

If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy.
(Unknown)

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
(Benjamin Franklin)

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
(Howard Schultz)

Honesty is the best policy.
(Aesop)
[The Horse and the Groom - Aesop's Fables]

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
(Jim Watkins)

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees the goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly - that is didication.
(Cecil B. DeMille)

Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
(James Buckham)

Every day begins with new possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
(Ronald Reagan)

There is more to success than reaching goals. Even a vast fortune can leave you feeling alone, unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose.
(Steve Brunkhorst)

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
(William F. Halsey)

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
(Robyn Davidson)

Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.
(Unknown)

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
(Abraham H. Maslow)

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you are strong enough to let go.
(Unknown)

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a small step.
(Chinese Proverb)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
(Elbert Hubbard)

Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you.
(Andrew Horton)

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
(Thomas Edison)

Prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
(Aesop)
[The Ant and the Grasshopper - Aesop's Fables]

If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.
(Eric Allenbaugh)

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
(Shakti Gawain)
[The Path of Transformation]

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know and you'll see the way to fly.
(Unknown)

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities. An optimist makes opportunities of so-called difficulties.
(Unknown)

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
(Unknown)

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
(Dutch Proverb)

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
(Og Mandino)

We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
(Sam Keen)

Success is the ability to close the door on your past, regardless of your failures, and move forward. In other words, if you're not on the way, you're in the way, so it's best that you get out of the way.
(Bill White)

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
(Max L. Forman)

Winners are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelieveable believeable, and the impossible possible.
(Unknown)

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
(Nathaniel Branden)

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose to be grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of lack falls away and we experience heaven on Earth.
(Sarah Ban Breathnach)

One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar
(Helen Keller)

Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
(Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face...I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.
(Harper Lee)

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
(Unknown)

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
(Jim Rohn)

Some people miss the message because they are too busy checking the spelling.
(Unknown)

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
(Unknown)

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
(Theodore Roosevelt)

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
(Earl Nightingale)

You don't get in life what you want. You get what you are.
(Les Brown)

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
(Dr. David M. Burns)

You would be surprised how luck, success and opportunity are never very far "behind" for the individuals who position themselves far "ahead" of the pack.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
(Unknown)

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
(Lao Tzu)
[philosopher]

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
(Lee Holtz)

Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
(Calvin Coolidge)

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time make it a positive and constructive one.
(Unknown)

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
(Andrew Carnegie)

One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principles.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.
(Ralph Lauren)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
(Johann von Goethe)

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
(Denis Waitley)

Don't attempt to attain success at any and all costs, the price may prove to high.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up.
(Unknown)

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
(Eric Hoffer)

What you sometimes think of as failure is often success in disguise.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

The high price of success is bought,paid and purchased with blood,sweat and tears.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

There is no such thing as can't; only varying degrees of don't want to.
(Tony Donohue)

If you don't have the time to do something right, when are you going to find the time to fix it?
(Stephen King)

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
(Abraham H. Maslow)

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
(Sonia Choquette)

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
(Abraham H. Maslow)

Best corporate IT quote ever: I don't think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that's all.
(Manjit Singh)

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
(Lou Holtz)

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
(Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?
(Unknown)

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
(Hank Aaron)

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
(Mike Zimmerman)

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
(Woody Allen)

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
(Channing Pollock)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
(Helen Keller)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
(Thomas Jefferson)

The difference between the successful person and the unsuccessful person is the unsuccessful person stops short of his goals; the successful person surpasses his goals.
(Joseph P. Martino)
[(1937~) American Poet, Author]

Many people like to think that they'll find balance AFTER they find success. But in reality, achieving balance IS success.
(Brian Koslow)

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
(Michael Jordan)

Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got.
(Sue Knight)

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
(A.A. Milne)

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
(Harrison Ford)

Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
(James Lane Allen)

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
(Charles Kendall Adams)

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
(Edward Everett Hale)

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.
(William Joseph Slim)

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
(Dale Carnegie)

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
(Will Rogers)

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.
(William F. Scolavino)

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
(Henry Ford)

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
(Colin L. Powell)

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
(Venus Williams)
[US tennis champion]

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
(Abraham Lincoln)

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.
(Unknown)

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny.
(Maxwell Maltz)